Sunday, October 20, 2013

How big is baby?: A tad bigger than last week! Are you sensing a pattern!? Goodness, I
never realized how boring this stretch of pregnancy is, what with the
“close to a pound, just over a pound, 11 inches long, 11 2/3 inches
long” comparisons week after week.

Maternity clothes?: Yep

Stretch marks?: I think I'm still only sporting the ones from LM.

Sleep?: Not so good the last couple of days. Allergies have hit me hard and I can't freakin' breathe! I've only tried Benadryl so far, but it's not helping much. I'm going to try Claritin today.

Best moment this week/Milestones?: A friend of ours from California sent us a BUNCH of stuff including the exact same car seat model that I got last month. I took the one I bought right back to Babies R Us and saved myself $150! Yay for not taking that bad boy out of it's box! I think I'll put some of the money I saved toward a cute diaper bag backpack :)

Movement?: Yeppers. Mostly at night though. It's a long day waiting for this little guy to get moving, but once he does, it's like a dance party in my ute. Upside to it is that MyLovf is around to feel it.

Food cravings?: Mmm FOOD!

Belly button in or out?: It's flattening out!

What I miss: Erm...hmm...

What I'm looking forward to: Viability day! One.more.week!

Developments: The pancreas is kicking into gear and blood
vessels continue to develop in the lungs. Lung development is a Big
Thing right now, since babies born around 24 weeks gestation can often
survive outside the womb. 23 weeks is pretty questionable, and 24 weeks
certainly isn’t a peachy keen time to be born or anything, but still. If
you’re the morbid sort who gets a tiny bit of comfort knowing that your
baby has a fighting chance If Something Terrible Were To Happen, well,
there you go.

Other Stuff:

In listening to my mom talking to my brother on the phone, I am starting to worry that she thinks she's going to have a super active role in this baby's day-to-day including putting him to bed "every night"... I wonder what I'm going to be doing? If I know myself (and I think I do), this is going to cause problems. I tend to be kind of selfish about the things I push out my brittney and I can't stand people overstepping boundaries with my kids.

My grandma kissed.my.stomach on Friday. It took everything in me not to say anything or push her away. I HATE IT! What makes it worse is that she and my mom KNOW that I don't like stuff like that and they do it anyway! Agh! WTF?

LM asks me multiple times per day "What's the baby doing?"Me:"Eating/Wiggling/Kicking me"LM: "That's what babies do?"Me:"Yep, that's what babies do!" The way he says it though, is so adorable. I gotta get it on film :)

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Favorite Quotes

It takes 9 months to grow a baby and only 1 second to fall in love with one. - Me!

"When a husband or wife dies, the survivor is called a widow or widower. When a child loses their parents, they are called an orphan. When a parent loses a child, there is no word for it. That is how tragic it is". -Yiddish saying.

There are only two ways to live your life,
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein

A smart person learns from his mistakes. A wise person learns from the mistakes of others. - Unknown